The Roy Green Show

Chinese election interference. Do we know just how far this has gone? Liberal MP John McKay wonders if we as Cdns have come to grips with how far and deep this election interference is.

Guest: John McKay, MP for Toronto’s Scarborough—Guildwood

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The future of media. Tucker Carlson appears to be making moves to launch a new show on Twitter following his firing from Fox News. Also the loss of Buzzfeed and Vice is on the table for discussion.

Guest: Dan Kennedy, media commentator and a weekly columnist for GBH News in Boston, writing about media, politics, and culture and a professor at Northeastern University

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Travel is expensive! As Globe and Mail pointed out this week, as tourism is on the rebound, we’re seeing the costs for traveling on the rise and travelers are getting a dose of harsh reality right now. A friend of Arlene’s even booked a car on a trip to Nova Scotia for 5 days… around $1000.

Guest: Lesley Keyter, travel expert

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Trade with China following expulsion retaliation 

Guest: Andreas Schotter, associate professor of international business at Western University’s Ivey Business School.

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Breast Cancer Screening 

Guest: Dr. Mojola Omole. General Surgeon and Breast Surgical Oncologist 

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Westjet strikes might be looming, how will that impact travelers and the aviation industry 

Guest: John Gradek, a lecturer with McGill University’s aviation management program 

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How “Momfluencers” ruined Mother’s Day

Guest: Sara Peterson, author of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture.

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Today’s podcast:

We get an update on the ongoing Alberta wildfires with Edson, where the mayor is ‘confident’ people will be able to return to their homes on Monday. Let’s get an update from a Global News reporter on his way to the city.

Guest: Slav Kornik, Global News reporter on his way to Edson.

With the wildfires in Alberta raging on, the province is also currently in the middle of it’s provincial election. With the candidates at play – including current premiere Danielle Smith - this election is set to have impacts throughout all of Canada.

Guest: Lori Williams, Political scientist with Mount Royal University

The saga of Chinese interfenrence in Canada continues… We’ve got CSIS, we’ve forgotten the search for who this informant is, a lot of it coming out from the Globe and Mail, and we learned this week that there’s more. CSIS now creating and asking for meetings with other Cdn politicians, and they’re not all from one party – one of them is former Conservative party leader Erin O’Toole.

Also, we have the expelled the Chinese Diplomat, then they expelled one of ours in retaliation and there’s possibly more to keep an eye on going forward. For now, let’s talk about the politics involved.

Guest: Lorrie Goldstein, columnist with the Toronto Sun

This week, another police officer killed in the line of duty, OPP Sgt. Mueller. Talking to Dr Gregory Brown about this, and we ask the question: Why are so many police officers dying in Canada this year? And what needs to be done?

Guest: Gregory Brown, Dr. Brown was Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice within the School of Science, Health, & Criminal Justice at the State University of New York, he also worked in a criminal intelligence liaison capacity for five years with the Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario (under the auspices of the government of Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services

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Host – Arlene Bynon

Executive Producer – Kelsey Campbell

Content Producer – Demi Knight

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

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We get an update on the ongoing Alberta wildfires and how the weather is impacted, how it’s going alongside the fires, and the immense heat across the province and felt throughout the country.

Guest: Rob Griffith, Environment Canada meteorologist

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The saga of Chinese interfenrence in Canada continues… we’ve seen China retaliate to the expulsion of their diplomat from Canada by expelling a Canadian diplomat from China. What are the potential ramifications on the economic side? Is there anything we need to keep an eye on?

Guest: Karen Woods, author at Geopolitics

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